what color would chocolate be other than brown?
seems ridiculous to me....
-White- chocolate, which would be *really* racist, doncha know.
it’s certainly not the chocolate -—the chocolate is secondary, but joined to those big red lips it does create an unmistakable impression that ANYONE would recognize as the kinds of images one would see in something as ‘innocuous’ as Sunday Newspaper comics where blacks were portrayed that way. I had hundreds of them, bought for almost nothing at a yard sale 20 years ago, none later than 1912, and interspered among the regular color cartoons were things like “Joe of the “Musical Habit”, which made me cringe just to look at it. See, Joe was a butler in a wealthy white residence, and everytime he heard music he’d drop everything, couldn’t control his feet, and would dance all the way down the winding staircase, much to everyone’s amusement and consternation. Joe’s lips were about 20 times larger than any lips I;ve seen on a human being, but looked exactly like the cupcake adornments.